Combination pencil-holder, &amp;c.



No. 01,119, PATENTED OCT. 3, 1906.

E. P. VAN ALSTYNE, JR. COMBINATION PENCIL HOLDER, &c.

APPLICATION FILED APILZZ. 1905.

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EDW ARD P. VAN ALSTYNE, J R., OF BISBEE, ARIZONA TERRITORY.

COMBINATION PENCIL-HOLDER, 81.0.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 3, 1905.

Application filed April 22,1905. Serial No. 256,937.

To (all whom it lit/t7 concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD P. VAN AL- STYNE, J12, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bisbee, in the county of Cochise and Territory of Arizona, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combination Pencil- Holders, &c. of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to a combined pencil and calendar holder, designed particularly for use as an advertising device.

The main object of the invention is the provision of a simple device of the character described and which may be formed integrally from a single sheet of material.

The invention will be described in detail in the following specification, reference being had particularly to the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same. Fig. 3is a side elevation of the same.

Referring to the drawings, in which like figures indicate like parts throughout the several views, my device is constructed of a single sheet of material of proportionate length and width. The sheet is preferably slightly curved in reversed direction near opposite ends to provide a graceful outline and is rounded at the upper end, as at 2, to provide a hinge-bearing for the rear support. At the lower end the sheet is coiled, as at 3, to provide a pen or pencil rest.

4 represents the rear support, preferably constructed of a single length of wire bent intermediate its ends to provide a knuckle 5 to seat in the coil-terminal 2 of the plate, the latter being preferably slitted intermediate its length, as at 6, to embrace said knuckle. The wire is projected from the ends of the knuckle downwardly, curved toward and in contact with the strip, as at 7, being there twisted about itself and projected from said twisted portion at an angle to strip 1 and suitably bent at the lower ends to provide feet 8.

The strip of material 1 is provided with a plurality of pencil or pen supports 9, comprising tongues cut from the body of the strip and projected forward therefrom, coiled or partially circular in form. By preference these supports are spaced apart to properly support the pencil or pen and may be in any desired number, it being understood that two of the supports are arranged in horizontal alinement in each series to support the pencil or pen near the opposite ends of the latter. Above the supports the sheet is provided with a calendar-holder comprising by preference five tongues 10, cut from the body of the strip and terminally bent into the angular form illustrated to provide a pocket for the reception of the calendar or calendarcards, As illustrated, this calendar-holder is without a tongue at the upper side, two of the tongues being arranged to embrace each side edge of the cards and one tongue arranged to the bottom intermediate the side tongues whereby to effectively support the cards or calendar and permit their ready introduction from the top of the holder, as will be evident. The space above the calendar-holder may be adapted for the reception of any suitable advertising desired.

The entire structure is of simple character and may be readily and quickly constructed of a single piece of material.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A device of the class described, made of a single sheet of material, coiled at the upper end to form a bearing, a rear support pivotally mounted in said bearing and bearing intermediate its length against the strip, said strip being formed with projections to serve as pencil-supports.

2. A device of the class described, comprising a strip integrally formed with pencilsupports and with a calendar-holder, a rear support pivotally connected to said strip and bearing intermediate its length against the strlp.

3. A device of the class described, comprising a single strip of material coiled at its lower end to form a pencil-holder, tongues cut from the strip and bent to form pencilsupports, and tongues cut from the strip and bent to form a tablet-holder.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD P. VAN ALSTYNE, JR.

WVitnesses:

S. A. MERRITT, WV. E. HANKIN. 

